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Maitrisimit ( Old Turkish ) or Maitreyasamiti-Nataka ( Tocharian A ) is the name of an originally in Sanskrit written Buddhist work on Maitreya , the Buddha of the future. This work is only in fragments of early medieval translations in Old Turkish and Tocharian A preserved. These fragments were first discovered during excavations at the beginning of the 20th century in localities along the ancient Silk Road , namely in Turfan . The remark by a Uighur scribe in such a fragment that the text from Sanskrit was first written in a language called twgry (the old Uighur script was a consonant alphabet, but also used the consonants ʾ, w and y to denote the vowels) and then in The (old) Turkish had been translated, was the starting point for naming the Tocharian languages .

Developing the manuscript from Hami provided new knowledge about the work.

literature

  • Annemarie von Gabain and Richard Hartmann (eds.): Maitrisimit. Facsimile of the Old Turkish version of a work by the Buddhist Vaibhasika school. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1961
  • Şinasi Tekin : Maitrisimit nom bitig: The Uighur translation of a work of the Buddhist Vaibhasika school. 1st part: transliteration, translation, notes. 2nd part: Analytical and declining index. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1980; ISBN 3-05-001378-8 (writings on the history and culture of the ancient Orient, Berlin Turfantexte).
  • Hans-Joachim Klimkeit : "On the content of the old Turkish Maitrisimit." In: Suhrllekhah. Festival for Helmut Eimer. Swisttal-Odendorf 1996 (Indica et Tibetica 28), pp. 111-119
  • Geng Shimin, Hans-Joachim Klimkeit and Jens Peter Laut: A Buddhist Apocalypse. The chapters of Hell (20-25) and the final chapters (26-27) of the Hami manuscript of the old Turkish Maitrisimit. Including manuscript parts of the text from Sängim and Murtuk. Introduction, transcription and translation by Geng Shimin, Hans-Joachim Klimkeit and Jens Peter Laut. Westdeutscher Vlg., Opladen 1998 (Treatises of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Volume 103)
  • Jens Peter Laut: Early Turkish Buddhism and its literary monuments. Wiesbaden 1986.

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